"And yet without it, I would not be who I am," she says. "I would not have this scar, or this sword. I might not have ever been born at all.

"What I mean, Lan Wangji, is that I am not an expert on prophecy, or what can or cannot be averted. It may have been destiny that brought me here to you – or it may have been one of a million possibilities. I think...even if I am a child of destiny, I still have the right to my own choices and actions. And so do you."